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Keeping up with City Planning

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I carry four cellphone integrated apps that help me be more effective at being civically-engaged here in Santa Rosa:   Google Calendar, Gmail, Maps, and YouTube.  Here’s how I use them together.  I use Google Engine Maps to mark the locations of all new proposed projects (housing developments, capital improvements, public recovery and fire prevention projects), and I place in the description area of the placemark active links to Zoom decision-making meetings, staff reports, submittals by developers, city planning and capital improvement documents, upcoming general plan proposed zoning and development changes and reports, and city videos of previous meetings where these projects were discussed.  The meetings are in my calendar, and cross-linked to the placemarks, and the documents and reports are on my Google Drive. 

I have a very complex virtual research library at my fingertips showing the impending changes coming to every foot of the cityscape.

And with 7,000 units coming from the private sector to downtown Santa Rosa, $39 million in CDBG-Disaster Relief housing projects being approved in February by the Housing Authority, $91 million worth of PG&E settlement housing and fire protections projects coming in the next couple of years, $200 million in Capital Improvements projects planned for the next three years, and a city-wide General Plan Update being conducted in the next three years, there will be change coming to everywhere.